{"id":26784,"date":"2025-10-29T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tkp.org.tr\/?p=26784"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:06:12","slug":"on-the-102nd-anniversary-of-the-republic-they-will-leave-as-they-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tkp.org.tr\/en\/agenda\/on-the-102nd-anniversary-of-the-republic-they-will-leave-as-they-came\/","title":{"rendered":"On the 102nd Anniversary of the Republic: They Will Leave as They Came"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Salute the Republic<\/strong>
\nTHEY WILL LEAVE AS THEY COME<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Republic of Turkey was born out of resistance \u2014 a struggle against imperial occupation and against the decaying remains of an empire that had turned on its own people.<\/p>\n

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Imperialism is not simply \u201cforeign interference,\u201d as the clich\u00e9 goes. It is the global system of multinational monopolies \u2014 an economic order built on exploitation and inequality. It the inevitable consequence of the \u201cfree market\u201d the sweetheart of the bourgeoisie. The same powers that sought to carve up Anatolia after the First World War are once again at work across a region that still includes Turkey.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s different is that we now have a domestic capitalist class marching in step with them. This class has grown rich off the labour of our people, seized control of the country\u2019s resources, and used the state as a tool in its own competition with others. Yet it has never broken its ties with imperialistic capital \u2014 economic, political, or military.<\/p>\n

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A century ago, those who collaborated with the occupiers were branded traitors. The National Struggle made collaboration a crime \u2014 and rightly so. Today, that same behaviour is dressed up as diplomacy. Praise from Washington is treated as a mark of prestige.<\/p>\n

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At the heart of this lies a simple truth: Turkey\u2019s ruling class is both self-serving and dependent. It condemns the majority to poverty and insecurity, kneels before the powerful, and growls only at the weak. The boundaries of \u201cmainstream politics\u201d are set by its interests. Whether it wraps itself in the language of \u201cWestern modernity\u201d or \u201cnational pride,\u201d its loyalties never lie with the people.<\/p>\n

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A nation cannot exist without its people. A system that leaves its working majority to hunger and hardship cannot call itself \u201cnational\u201d \u2014 in its domestic policies or in its foreign ones.<\/p>\n

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Across the world, the corporations that dominate finance, technology, industry, and trade are tied together by capital flows, supply chains, and markets. Yet what truly binds them is their shared dependence on cheap labour and their shared interest in keeping it that way.<\/p>\n

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And despite all their interconnections, they remain locked in constant rivalry \u2014 dragging whole states into their quarrels. Those rivalries are the real engine of conflict and war. There is no capitalism without war. There is no such thing as a \u201cpeaceful capitalism.\u201d And the idea of a \u201cnational capitalism\u201d is a contradiction in terms.
\nThe attitude that says, \u201cAt least the thief is one of ours,\u201d or \u201cIf we\u2019re going to be exploited, better by our own than by outsiders,\u201d is not realism \u2014 it\u2019s a betrayal of the very struggle that founded the Republic.<\/p>\n

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Communists supported that struggle because they opposed injustice in every form. They didn\u2019t simply cheer it from the sidelines; they fought in it, because they opposed imperialism itself. They trusted the people and loved their country. Even when others tried to twist that struggle for personal gain, they refused to let it be discredited. They opposed not only the imperialist war but also the so-called \u201cimperialist peace\u201d that followed \u2014 the Treaty of S\u00e8vres, which our people torn to shreds.<\/p>\n

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We stand in that same tradition today.<\/p>\n

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The Communist Party of Turkey does not approach the Republic or the War of Independence as matters of blind nationalism. Injustice is injustice, wherever it occurs. The billions of ordinary people across the world who have no quarrel with one another are our brothers and sisters. We do not hide behind talk of \u201cforeign powers.\u201d Imperialism is not an outside conspiracy \u2014 it is the rule of global monopolies that plunder every nation they touch: Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, Greek, German, British, French, Russian, Indian, Pakistani alike. Among the guilty are our own so-called \u201clocal\u201d and \u201cnational\u201d profiteers. You cannot honour the National Struggle while excusing them. Wherever there are exploitation and injustice, our duty is clear: to resist them.<\/p>\n

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Our own capitalist class has another defining trait: no matter how rich or assertive it becomes, it cannot break free of its dependence on the USA and NATO. The same elites who once took a beating from the poor Anatolian peasantry during the War of Independence still cling to the coattails of the British. They circle endlessly under imperial wings, dreaming of being a \u201cregional power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Look at the current government. In economics, it follows the British school; in foreign policy, the same. Even in intelligence, the ties run so deep that the head of Britain\u2019s spy agency can hold a press conference in Istanbul urging our people to \u201cserve\u201d them \u2014 and the government barely raises an eyebrow.<\/p>\n

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The truth is that the predators at that table of wolves don\u2019t much like one another. With few exceptions, the pro-American, pro-British, pro-German, and pro-French factions in Turkey all quietly despise their patrons abroad \u2014 and the feeling is mutual. The Americans know their \u201callies\u201d can\u2019t stand them. But in the world of capital, where money sets the tempo, friendship is an illusion. There are only interests \u2014 and collisions between them. In such a world, collaboration becomes a recurring crime.<\/p>\n

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Once again, Turkey is being pulled back into the orbit of Washington and London. The roots of this lie in the structure of its capitalist class \u2014 whether it wears the colours of T\u00dcS\u0130AD or M\u00dcS\u0130AD, yellow, green, or pink. On that line stand Menderes, Demirel, Evren, \u00d6zal, \u00c7iller. On that line stand the Muslim Brotherhood and the so-called \u201cNational Outlook.\u201d On that line stand the religious orders fattened by the anti-communist crusades. The AKP is both the product of that line \u2014 and its inevitable end.<\/p>\n

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A hundred and two years ago, we founded the Republic. The Republic meant equality \u2014 government by the people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A hundred and two years later, our people are drowning in inequality. A hundred and two years later, imperial powers once again roam freely across our land.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To salute the Republic today is to defy that disgrace. To salute Mustafa Kemal, the leader of the National Struggle, and those who stood with him, is to stand once more against imperialism and exploitation.
\nWe give our word: we will rid Turkey of imperialism and exploitation. Whether \u201cforeign\u201d or \u201cdomestic\u201d makes no difference \u2014 both are diseases in the body of the nation. We will rebuild the Republic on socialist foundations and remove every parasite that clings to it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As it was a century ago:<\/p>\n

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They will leave as they came.
\nExploiters of the world!
\nYou will leave as you came.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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